Native Toll Booth on Hwy 6

It appears that Caledonia area natives are now going to put a toll booth on Hwy 6, an Ontario highway paid for and maintained by the hard working taxpayers.

How do I think this will play out? Well, from past experience with our gutless and worthless government and the leaders of the OPP, I believe they will stand by as the toll booths are erected (probably with tax payers' money) and then spend further tax payers' money by keeping battalions of police officers standing guard to insure no-one slams through the bloody booths. The government will continue to use our money to keep Hwy 6 well maintained while other roads fall apart.

These toll booths, if allowed to exist, will be the first of many thrust upon us by a group of people who have no more ownership in that land than the rest of us. Did the natives build this country? No. Did their ancestors, who were no more than squatters, sell the land? Yes.

By their own admission the native population is only 30% employed while the rest collect welfare provided, again, by the hard working taxpayers of this country. There is no fairness in what they are doing and it's causing racial prejudice where little existed before.

Some of their previously successful businesses have gone bankrupt because non natives refuse to deal with them anymore. It worries me that native children might be poorly treated if they attend public schools, too. I don't ever recall hearing so much hatred against natives as I do these days.

I've always thought that the reservations were one of the worse things created for natives because it segregated them and didn't allow them to assimilate into the rest of society. There are few jobs on the reservation and that's created a majority of bored, uneducated, and secular natives who have no idea how to live in the real world where you work for what you get. You don't sit on your butt and moan that your ancestors were cheated out of their land 200 years ago and now want it all handed back to you.

My husband's grandfather lost farms when the economy was bad but we can't grab them back today. My greatgrandfather lost his business during the depression but I can't walk into the building and demand it back 70 years later. Someone has to be reasonable about this and I'm sorely afraid our government will fail us once again.